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by John Ferguson Smart; Jan Molak

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From the publisher

Deliver software that does what it's supposed to do! Behavior-Driven Development guides your software projects to success with collaboration, communication techniques, and concrete requirements you can turn into automated tests.

In BDD in Action, Second Edition you'll learn how to:

  • Implement and improve BDD practices
  • Prioritize features from business goals
  • Facilitate an example mapping session
  • Write automated acceptance tests
  • Scale up your automated acceptance tests
  • Deliver accurate reporting and documentation

Around half of all software projects fail to deliver on requirements. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) helps make sure that yours isn't one of them. Behavior-Driven Development in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to ensure that everyone involved in a software project--from developers to non-technical stakeholders--are in agreement on goals and objectives. It lays out the communication skills, collaborative practices, and useful automation tools that will let you seamlessly succeed with BDD. Now in its second edition, this revised bestseller has been extensively updated with new techniques for incorporating BDD into large-scale and enterprise development practices such as Agile and DevOps.

Foreword by Daniel Terhorst-North.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Behavior-Driven Development is a collaborative software design technique that organizes examples of an application's desired behavior into a concrete, testable specification. Because the BDD process gathers input from all areas of an organization, it maximizes the likelihood your software will satisfy both end users and business stakeholders. The established collaboration practices and automation strategies in this book will help you maximize the benefits of BDD for your dev team and your business clients.

About the Book

In BDD in Action, Second Edition, you'll learn to seamlessly integrate BDD into your existing development process. This thoroughly revised new edition now shows how to integrate BDD with DevOps and large-scale Agile systems. Practical examples introduce cross-functional team communication skills, leading a successful requirements analysis, and how to set up automated acceptance criteria.

What's Inside

  • How BDD positively affects teamwork, dynamics, and collaboration with stakeholders
  • Help teams discover and analyze requirements, uncover assumptions, and reduce risks
  • Make acceptance, integration, and unit testing more effective
  • Automate reporting and living documentation to improve transparency

About the Reader

For all development teams. No experience with BDD required. Examples in Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript can be easily expressed in your chosen language.

About the Author

John Ferguson Smart is the creator of the Serenity BDD framework and founder of the Serenity Dojo training school. Jan Molak is the author of the Serenity/JS testing framework, Jenkins Build Monitor, and other CD and testing tools.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - FIRST STEPS
1 Building software that makes a difference
2 Introducing Behavior-Driven Development
3 BDD: The whirlwind tour
PART 2 - WHAT DO I WANT? DEFINING REQUIREMENTS USING BDD
4 Speculate: From business goals to prioritized features
5 Describing and prioritizing features
6 Illustrating features with examples
7 From examples to executable specifications
PART 3 - HOW DO I BUILD IT? CODING THE BDD WAY
8 From executable specifications to automated acceptance tests
9 Writing solid automated acceptance tests
10 Automating acceptance criteria for the UI layer
11 Test automation design patterns for the UI layer
12 Scalable test automation with the Screenplay Pattern
13 BDD and executable specifications for microservices and APIs
14 Executable specifications for existing systems with Serenity/JS
15 Portable test automation with Serenity/JS
16 Living documentation and release evidence

From the rear cover

Revised and upgraded with the latest tools and practices, Behaviour Driven Development in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to integrate BDD into your software development process. The book starts with the communication skills that are the core of good BDD, showing how a successful requirements analysis will reduce waste and make sure you are developing features in line with business goals. Once you've established this collaborative structure, you'll learn how to use automated acceptance criteria to guide and report on the development process. Alongside learning to apply BDD principles at the coding level for more maintainable code, this new edition is expanded with coverage of working with BDD in large-scale Agile systems and as part of DevOps practices.

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  • Title BDD in Action, Second Edition: Behavior-Driven Development for the Whole Software Lifecycle
  • Author John Ferguson Smart; Jan Molak
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 488
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manning Publications
  • Publication date 2023-05-02
  • ISBN 9781617297533 / 1617297534
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.13 x 7.32 x 1.26 in (23.19 x 18.59 x 3.20 cm)
  • Category Computers - Languages / Programming

About the author

John Ferguson Smart is a specialist in BDD, automated testing, and software lifecycle development optimization.

Jan Molak is a trainer, speaker and consultant. He is the author of the Serenity/JS testing framework, Jenkins Build Monitor, and numerous other tools in the continuous delivery and testing space.

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